fishing

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has certified a new state record flathead catfish caught in May in the Susquehanna River. Micha...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has certified a new state record for the biggest flathead catfish. According to the PFBC, angler Michael Whe...

The Bradford Community Pride Lions Club will host their third annual Kids’ Fishing Derby this Saturday. The derby is only open to children between the...

In the second year of its existence, the annual Kinzua Cup Walleye tournament once again impressed, seeing an increase of anglers, competition and big...

Dozens of Pennsylvania stream sections will be given increased protection following last week’s approval by the state Board of Fish and Boat Commissio...

On feral farmland near Slippery Rock and Sarver, two private lakes quietly hold bass genetically linked to ancestors that were likely stocked there ge...

OSWAYO — The LEEK Veteran Hunting and Mountain Preserve in Oswayo sponsored a group of area veterans from the Cattaraugus/Allegany (N.Y.) County Dwyer...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Children’s fishing rods sold at places including Bass Pro and Dick’s Sporting Goods have been recalled because they contain too muc...

The stream, when we arrived, was the lowest it’d been all year, but there was still a good current moving downstream. We half slid, half stumbled, dow...

Playtime isn’t just about playing. It is the way mammals discover and develop innate skills. With green sprouts emerging and spring weather taking hol...

FISH STORIES: The Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau announced its 2023 Big Fish Contest, which runs April 1 through June 30. There is no sho...

Life moves on inexorably. Perhaps, it’s a good thing life presents us with so many difficult challenges. Opposition, it appears, is necessary in all t...

The alarm jarred me out of sleep at 5:15 a.m. What in the world? My weary mind struggled out of the delicious coils of deep slumber, and then it hit m...

HARRISBURG — Trout season in Pennsylvania opens statewide April 1, following a Mentored Youth Trout Day March 25. As it has done through the past deca...

KINZUA: We’re passing along another “sighting” of Kinzua Bridge in the news. Pennsylvania Outdoor columnist Brian Whipkey wrote, “Hiking, fishing, his...

NORTH EAST (TNS) — Some 15 years ago,Pennsylvaniaanglers were outraged about a growing trend, the privatization of once-public fishing waters. A once-...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Long-time PennLive outdoors writer Marcus Schneck captured Pennsylvania’s rich menagerie of birds, wildlife, fish and critters of a...

Shopping for the perfect holiday gift for an outdoors enthusiast can often be an adventure, since most hunters, anglers, hikers and bikers have certai...

The sun was high in the cloudless sky, beating down upon me without pity. It was so bright, I wondered briefly if my sunglasses were on; the bright, s...

When you spend hours, days, weeks fishing and making thousands of casts over many years, some strange things happen. Some seem unbelievable, but that ...